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Comment by chrisweekly

1 day ago

Case-sensitivity reduces portability. "Different strokes", I guess. (literally and figuratively!)

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yencabulator  18 hours ago

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...

> Uppercase and lowercase letters shall retain their unique identities and shall not be folded together.

> The name space of environment variable names containing lowercase letters is reserved for applications.

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